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“You want the truth?” Her own hurt bubbled up, like steam from a volcano ready to erupt. “This is the truth: I would have married you in a heartbeat, had you asked me. I would have married you knowing you would hand me over to my killers—or kill me yourself—the moment you found out what I was. That’s how pathetic I am, Gideon! That’s how desperately I wanted to be yours!”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“I’m pretty sure Alex was yours long before I met him, but he was just too dumb to realize it.”
― Ali Novak, My Return to the Walter Boys

“When he saw me looking, a red tinge brightened the top of his cheeks. I blinked, and it was gone—a trick of the light, maybe. “No,” Arin said. “No?” “No, I don’t wish I was alone with my maps and my talwith. I am where I want to be.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“I'm allowed to want soft, special things.”
― B.K. Borison, First-Time Caller